“We love them,” says Pete Klein, a farmer in South Haven, Michigan. “Some people know them, some don’t. I sell all that I grow.” It should be said up front: The Mexican sour gherkin is technically not ...

I want to try my hand at producing gherkin pickles. Is a gherkin simply a small pickling cucumber? Gherkins, also called West Indian or Burr cucumbers, produce small, exceptionally spiny fruit used ...